From: dirkvandemoortel@notmail.com   
      
   Op 23-jun-2018 om 11:15 schreef Ed Lake:   
   > On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:04:56 PM UTC-5, richali...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 3:00:26 PM UTC-5, Nicolaas Vroom wrote:   
   >>> On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:12:13 UTC+2, Ed Lake  wrote:   
   >   
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   >   
   > Einstein's thought experiments produced papers which showed that   
   > time is variable: The faster you travel, the slower time advances   
   > for you, i,e., the slower your clocks will tick, the slower you   
   > will age, the slower your hair will grow, etc.  It took a long time   
   > for actual experiments to confirm that.  But they did.   
   >   
   > Einstein's thought experiments about time also showed that if clocks   
   > tick slower when they move faster, then the ether is "superfluous"   
   > (i.e., "not needed"), since you can measure how fast you are going   
   > relative to someone else by the difference in tick rates for identical   
   > clocks.   
   >   
   > If you have five people with identical clocks traveling at five   
   > different speeds, their clocks will tick at five different rates.   
   > You can rank the five by their relative speeds - A is moving faster   
   > than B, B is moving faster than C, C is moving faster than D, and   
   > D is moving faster than E.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately, when Einstein said he made the ether "superfluous,"   
   > some people inexplicably interpreted that to mean that motion is   
   > reciprocal, i,e., if I am moving faster than you in my frame of   
   > reference,   
      
   You don't move in your frame of reference.   
      
   Dirk Vdm   
      
      
   > you are moving faster than me in your frame of reference.   
   > And no matter how many ways you show that belief to be absurd, they   
   > still believe it.   
   >   
   > Ed   
      
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